diff --git a/article_scraper/src/full_text_parser/mod.rs b/article_scraper/src/full_text_parser/mod.rs
index e130ba8..8250b02 100644
--- a/article_scraper/src/full_text_parser/mod.rs
+++ b/article_scraper/src/full_text_parser/mod.rs
@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ impl FullTextParser {
                     if let Some(encoding) = Self::get_encoding_from_html(&lossy_string) {
                         log::debug!("Encoding extracted from HTML: '{}'", encoding);
                         if let Some(decoded_html) = Self::decode_html(&bytes, encoding) {
+                            let decoded_html = decoded_html.replace(&format!("charset=\"{encoding}\""), "charset=\"utf-8\"");
                             return Ok(decoded_html);
                         }
                     }
@@ -388,6 +389,7 @@ impl FullTextParser {
                     if let Some(encoding) = Self::get_encoding_from_http_header(&headers) {
                         log::debug!("Encoding extracted from headers: '{}'", encoding);
                         if let Some(decoded_html) = Self::decode_html(&bytes, encoding) {
+                            let decoded_html = decoded_html.replace(&format!("charset=\"{encoding}\""), "charset=\"utf-8\"");
                             return Ok(decoded_html);
                         }
                     }